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idolization

noun

idolization is a noun meaning “The act of idolizing, adoring or worshiping, especially to excess” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-D-O-L-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 34 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of idolization is idolizations.

What does idolization mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The act of idolizing, adoring or worshiping, especially to excess.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce idolization?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-idolization.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of idolization

  • idolizations plural
  • idolisation UK

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is idolization?

Idolization appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).